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With the rise of internet streaming video, knock-off films like 'Kiara the Brave' are making a comeback.

If you want to watch Pixar's race-car animated adventure Cars on Netflix, you're out of luck.

Since the contract between Disney and Netflix came to an end, you won't find any Pixar films on the Netflix streaming website. For a while you could watch Toy Story 3 and some other good Pixar titles but alas, those days have come to an end.

On the other hand, you can watch a host of Disney and Pixar knock-offs, as well as some really blatant rip-offs of DreamWorks movies.

For instance, you can watch any number of "The Little Cars" movies and TV episodes, produced by Rexmore Company of Brazil, and distributed in the US by Branscome International, which appear to be "inspired" by Pixar's Cars franchise:

Now it's true that in many of the blurbs for The Little Cars, we're warned that it's "unrelated to the Pixar franchise" but the hit Brazilian show is obviously going beyond "inspiration" here.